Friday, August 11, 2006
Before I forget, students at San Francisco State did a great job of covering last week's Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national convention with a daily paper and its Web counterpart, the AEJMC Reporter.
I'm still catching up on convention sessions I missed and the Reporter is helping a lot. There were events going on in parallel to make me consider being cloned. When I went to a newspaper division session, I'd miss a photography session; when I sat in on one friend's session about weblogs, I missed another friend's panel on new visual media. And so on.
Here are some of the events the student paper featured:
Altogether a fine job of putting together a special-event daily publication on deadline, complete with a few glitches to learn from (convention goers even got to see a few paragraphs of "lorem ipsum" in print)... but all the more impressive for being a "summer vacation" activity for the students involved.
Built on SFSU's [X]Press Online J-school publication, the AEJMC Reporter online edition's multimedia touches were a great addition, including broadcast-news-style interviews done in a narrated slideshow from the event's opening gala. (I would have expected someone so close to Chinatown to know lion dancers from dragons, but I love the reporter's understated and very-San-Francisco comment that "the reception helped many miss the 4.4 magnitude earthquake that evening...")
9:13:22 PM #
I'm still catching up on convention sessions I missed and the Reporter is helping a lot. There were events going on in parallel to make me consider being cloned. When I went to a newspaper division session, I'd miss a photography session; when I sat in on one friend's session about weblogs, I missed another friend's panel on new visual media. And so on.
Here are some of the events the student paper featured:
- AEJMC's Best of the Web awards go to North Carolina State, Arizona State, UNC Chapel Hill and others (with links to the award sites, of course).
- A multimedia report with narration of images from photography prize-winner Dennis Chamberlin's Screen Culture.
- Story with audio of Larry Lessig's keynote speech on read-write and read-only culture, what he called "remix" culture versus Digital Rights Management controls.
- NPPA Announces Campaign to Protest Jailed Reporter -- breaking news about a freelance journalist who refused to turn over unaired video to a grand jury.
- Finding Citizen Journalism's Place -- including blogs and Wikis, a panel at which I "met" a fellow professor who I've known for 10 years, but only online... illustrating one of the points the panel was making about online community.
- Women Reporters Often Thrive in Danger Zones -- a panel by the organization's Commission on the Status of Women.
Altogether a fine job of putting together a special-event daily publication on deadline, complete with a few glitches to learn from (convention goers even got to see a few paragraphs of "lorem ipsum" in print)... but all the more impressive for being a "summer vacation" activity for the students involved.
Built on SFSU's [X]Press Online J-school publication, the AEJMC Reporter online edition's multimedia touches were a great addition, including broadcast-news-style interviews done in a narrated slideshow from the event's opening gala. (I would have expected someone so close to Chinatown to know lion dancers from dragons, but I love the reporter's understated and very-San-Francisco comment that "the reception helped many miss the 4.4 magnitude earthquake that evening...")
9:13:22 PM #
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